page_title: The Boat Race 1904
section_title: Crews
hierarchical_section_title: The Boat Race 1904 / Crews
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Stanley Bruce, 1910s Photograph, Sepia toned, Original Size 20.1 x 14.8 cm. National Library of Australia, No. an23310137
context_page_description: The 61st Boat Race took place on 26 March 1904. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Neither boat club president was able to row through injury. In a race umpired by former rower Frederick I. Pitman, Cambridge won by ​4 ¹⁄₂ lengths in a time of 21 minutes 37 seconds. Their third victory in a row, it took the overall record in the event to 33–27 in Oxford's favour.
context_section_description: The Oxford crew weighed an average of 11 st 9.75 lb (74.1 kg), 1 pound (0.5 kg) per rower more than their opponents.  Two of the Cambridge crew had previous Boat Race experience, the number six P. H. Thomas (who was rowing for the third consecutive year) and the cox B. G. A. Scott.  Oxford's crew had a single returning rower, the stroke A. K. Graham.  Two of the participants in the race were registered as non-British, in Cambridge's Australian number two Stanley Bruce and their number seven Harold Gillies who was from New Zealand.
caption: Stanley Bruce rowed at number two for Cambridge.
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